icy contempt
Frequency: 3.01.8 per million words
disrespect that is very cold and unfriendly
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Examples (10)
- She looked at him with icy contempt after he betrayed her trust.
- His voice was laced with icy contempt as he read the verdict.
- He regarded her flimsy excuse with nothing but icy contempt.
- Despite her smile, her eyes betrayed a look of icy contempt.
- The veteran politician dismissed the reporter's question with icy contempt.
- A flicker of icy contempt crossed her face before she composed herself.
- He felt the icy contempt in her stare, which was colder than any winter wind.
- Their once-warm friendship had dissolved into a mutual and icy contempt.
- She couldn't forget the way he had spoken to her, his words dripping with icy contempt.
- The judge's final remark was delivered with an air of icy contempt for the defendant's lack of remorse.